Bitter campaign ends peacefully

St Petersburg - Voting ended peacefully in a local election here yesterday after a bitter campaign marked by the murder of a …

St Petersburg - Voting ended peacefully in a local election here yesterday after a bitter campaign marked by the murder of a prominent Russian democrat.

Liberals hoped to win a large number of seats in the former tsarist capital's legislative assembly in the second round of voting after a strong showing in the first round on December 6th.

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